Re: LFS

2021-07-19 Thread Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss
hmmm. Sounds like a package needs adding. Btw, closed captioning is not proprietary. It is in such wide use that it has become ubiquitous. However, if someone on the gnome project is trying to claim this, then it’s time to educate them on the facts of life. Also, I have had to deal with a

Re: LFS

2021-07-19 Thread Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss
But it's not accessible to the hearing impaired. I had mentioned to gnome on their list and was told they can't put caption into gnome because it is proprietary and gnome feels they can not put it into gnome. I don't understand that since it's a standard thing worldwide. So how can it be

Re: LFS

2021-07-19 Thread Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss
Because of some secondary dependencies that are probably needed. And yes, someone has already made the comment about it being bloated. However, I disagree as Gnome is fully accessible to the blind and is compatible with the dozen or so known screen readers for the blind. KDE, However, is not.

Re: LFS

2021-07-18 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
Well, If I don't like it I can always compile sometnng else! On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 10:15 PM Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > If your looking for a smaller faster one. Have you thought about Xfce.. > > > On Sun, Jul 18, 2021, at 19:05, Matthew Crews via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > On

Re: LFS

2021-07-18 Thread Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss
If your looking for a smaller faster one. Have you thought about Xfce.. On Sun, Jul 18, 2021, at 19:05, Matthew Crews via PLUG-discuss wrote: > On 7/18/21 4:58 PM, Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > Because it's more bloated as I see it. > > > > On Sun, Jul 18, 2021, at 16:33, Michael

Re: LFS

2021-07-18 Thread Matthew Crews via PLUG-discuss
On 7/18/21 4:58 PM, Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss wrote: > Because it's more bloated as I see it. > > On Sun, Jul 18, 2021, at 16:33, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote: >> You know I'm doing Linux From Scratch and I'm looking into Beyond >> Linux from Scratch. Well I look at KDE and I look at

Re: LFS

2021-07-18 Thread Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss
Because it's more bloated as I see it. On Sun, Jul 18, 2021, at 16:33, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote: > You know I'm doing Linux From Scratch and I'm looking into Beyond > Linux from Scratch. Well I look at KDE and I look at Gnome. Gnome has > about twice the pAckages to compile. Why is that? >

LFS

2021-07-18 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
You know I'm doing Linux From Scratch and I'm looking into Beyond Linux from Scratch. Well I look at KDE and I look at Gnome. Gnome has about twice the pAckages to compile. Why is that? -- :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list -

Starting Point For LFS

2021-07-16 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
it works. I would like to learn more about Linux. Maybe it might be a good exercise to build Linux from scratch. Then maybe I can start creating a Linux desktop computer based on LFS So tell me is this the starting point for Linux from Scratch: https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view

LFS section 9.3

2014-09-08 Thread Michael Havens
into the gpm directory, the terminal froze. I couldn't enter nor ^C. I shut the terminal down and then started another one and now I can't ssh into the lfs box. I then just restarted the lfs box and then ran 'ip addr show' and it says the ip address isn't what it was. It was 192.168.0.14 but now

Re: LFS section 9.3

2014-09-08 Thread kitepilot
and then started another one and now I can't ssh into the lfs box. I then just restarted the lfs box and then ran 'ip addr show' and it says the ip address isn't what it was. It was 192.168.0.14 but now it is 169.254.11.37/16 . Two questions, Why did it change from one private address to another and in another

Re: LFS section 9.3

2014-09-08 Thread Michael Havens
. Then, after unpacking gpm, and after I cd into the gpm directory, the terminal froze. I couldn't enter nor ^C. I shut the terminal down and then started another one and now I can't ssh into the lfs box. I then just restarted the lfs box and then ran 'ip addr show' and it says the ip address isn't what

Re: LFS section 9.3

2014-09-08 Thread kitepilot
and now I can't ssh into the lfs box. I then just restarted the lfs box and then ran 'ip addr show' and it says the ip address isn't what it was. It was 192.168.0.14 but now it is 169.254.11.37/16 . Two questions, Why did it change from one private address to another and in another subnet? I'm thinking

Re: LFS section 9.3

2014-09-08 Thread Michael Havens
, and after I cd into the gpm directory, the terminal froze. I couldn't enter nor ^C. I shut the terminal down and then started another one and now I can't ssh into the lfs box. I then just restarted the lfs box and then ran 'ip addr show' and it says the ip address isn't what

LFS 8.5

2014-09-06 Thread Michael Havens
I finished! Before I boot into the new system they say to install a few BLFS programs to make it easier before I leave the chroot environment. So I download the first program, check the md5sum of it, and then try to scp that program to the lfs computer with the following results: bmike1@CQ57

Re: LFS 8.5

2014-09-06 Thread sean
Can mike write to /sources on the lfs host? On Sep 6, 2014 12:37 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I finished! Before I boot into the new system they say to install a few BLFS programs to make it easier before I leave the chroot environment. So I download the first program, check

LFS 9.3

2014-09-06 Thread Michael Havens
That solved the problem! I needed to do it as root. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 12:42 PM, sean sean.a.ritz...@gmail.com wrote: Can mike write to /sources on the lfs host? On Sep 6, 2014 12:37 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I finished! Before I boot into the new system

LFS 8.4

2014-09-05 Thread Michael Havens
I'm in the step in which they talk about the boot partition and grub. I have some questions about the boot partition before I proceed: Do all Linux distos look for a boot partition first or else how does this work? The instructions say to modify fstab. Here is the current fstab for lfs

LFS section 8.3

2014-09-02 Thread Michael Havens
I'm almost done with the base LFS system. The error I am getting now is: Makefile:1024: recipe for target 'modules_install' failed I'm thinking that it is because I'm not installing any modules This is what I entered to get to that point: makemake.fail 21 make modules_installinstall.fail 21 cp

Re: lfs fail during 6.26

2014-08-18 Thread Michael Havens
okay, I modified my script a little (see below) and it seemed to run but the red fail didn't seem to come up in the grep command. So everything is good now? FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 ./configure \ --prefix=/usr\ --enable-no-install-program=\

Fwd: lfs fail during 6.26

2014-08-16 Thread Michael Havens
cool! I was watching the text scroll by and noticed a red 'fail'. I tried to go up to the 'fail' but the terminal wouldn't let me and by the time it had finished the 'fail' was way past the buffer. I need to know if the following (the commands you are supposed to enter with the package) plus my

for lfs people

2014-08-10 Thread Michael Havens
ever had a problem finding the right package? Well, here http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/lfs/lfs-packages/ you go to find that package! :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change

Re: LFS- download source files

2014-07-26 Thread Michael Havens
cool! I got all of the packages and (after multiple downloads) all of the md5sums check out except for one. mike@debian:/mnt/lfs/sources$ md5sum -c ../downloadfiles/md5sums|grep boot lfs-bootscripts-20130821.tar.bz2: FAILED md5sum: WARNING: 1 line is improperly formatted md5sum: WARNING: 1

Re: LFS- download source files

2014-07-26 Thread Michael Havens
. mike@debian:/mnt/lfs/sources$ md5sum -c ../downloadfiles/md5sums|grep boot lfs-bootscripts-20130821.tar.bz2: FAILED md5sum: WARNING: 1 line is improperly formatted md5sum: WARNING: 1 computed checksum did NOT match mike@debian:/mnt/lfs/sources$ I think this is telling me that 1 line

Re: [LFS Build] -- WAS: Are Social Networking Sites Reducing Activity on This List?

2013-05-02 Thread Michael Havens
PM, Michael Havens wrote: I've been thinking that what I want to do is to make a dedeicated os for xbmc. Which do you think would be better to use for this purpose, Linux from Scratch or Slackware. I have completed a LFS system but (because I mixed lfs versions) it wouldn't boot but at least